by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Sep 25, 2019 | 2019, Press Releases
Ottawa, Ontario – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate was released today in Monaco. The Report points to drastic consequences to Arctic regions as a result of unstoppable changes to...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Sep 10, 2019 | 2019, Press Releases
Rankin Inlet, Nunavut – A new federal policy strengthens a commitment to Inuit and other Indigenous Peoples at the circumpolar level, says ICC Canada President, Monica Ell-Kanayuk. “ICC worked with Global Affairs Canada to ensure the International dimension of the...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | Aug 27, 2019 | 2019, Press Releases
August 27, 2019 – As thousands of hectares of tropical forest burn from wildfires in South America, Inuit across circumpolar nations in Alaska, Canada, Chukotka, and Greenland are expressing their solidarity with the Indigenous peoples living in the Amazon and their...
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | May 24, 2019 | 2019, Press Releases
Ottawa, Ontario – ICC Canada commends the government of Canada for defending our sovereignty in the Canadian Arctic by filing a 2,100-page submission to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) defining our “Extended” Continental Shelf Boundary....
by Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada | May 8, 2019 | 2019, Press Releases
Ottawa, Canada – Inuit have reaffirmed Canada’s sovereignty over the Northwest Passage after comments this week by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Canada’s claim over the passage was “illegitimate.” “The Northwest Passage is part of Inuit Nunangat, our...
